Because Japan has invaded China during the World War II, the crimes commited by the Japanese Government upon the Chinese people are still unapologised (in fact, the Japanese Government still denies many solid accusations, such as the issue of "comfort women" of which the Japanese Government still claim those victims were willingly submitted into the service).

VROOR wrote:Because Japan has both invaded and occupied Korea in history and, during that occupational era, a lot of crimes were commited by the Japanese there.

You know, there's this great concept out there called forgiveness. Sure, that stuff happened, but it's all in the past now. Why does an average 20-something Japanese person have to be held accountable for something that happened before s/he was born? That would be like me hating all white people and western European nations because of their participation in the Atlantic slave trade. Or, what if I decided to hate Germany because of what some NAZIs did to my great-grandmother? But I don't hate them or anyone else. Those are things of the past and I'm over them.Holding on to grudges is unhealthy.

VROOR wrote:Because Japan has both invaded and occupied Korea in history and, during that occupational era, a lot of crimes were commited by the Japanese there.

You know, there's this great concept out there called forgiveness. Sure, that stuff happened, but it's all in the past now. Why does an average 20-something Japanese person have to be held accountable for something that happened before s/he was born? That would be like me hating all white people and western European nations because of their participation in the Atlantic slave trade. Or, what if I decided to hate Germany because of what some NAZIs did to my great-grandmother? But I don't hate them or anyone else. Those are things of the past and I'm over them.Holding on to grudges is unhealthy.

Personally, I am not the one who has issues with the Japanese people. However, the fact of this racial hatred been addressed by me here is, its actual existence amongst many chinese people as well as its depth and intoxication. Note that, when I accuse of the war crimes, I accuse the Japanese Government, I did not (and do not, will not) accuse any individual who has nothing to do with these events (be they japanese or nay).

The only accusation I made against the Japanese Government is, their failure in apologising for those crimes as well as the denials of parts of those crimes. Beyond those, I am not as zeal as some of the more active zealots, who are usually being used by the politicians in one way or another.

What denial? There have been various statements by Japanese leaders in 1972 and 1985 to China expressing remorse & apology. The Japanese government has acknowledged the crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after the fall of Nanjing. Japanese Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi offered a verbal apology to Chinese President Jiang Zemin in 1998.That doesn't sound like denial to me.

kaenif wrote:Nanking Massacre becomes Nanking Incident, an unimportant footnote in their textbooks. (You can see the change in the textbooks here.)

Which textbook are you referring to? The one from 1984 (over 25 years ago), the one from 1999 (over10 years ago) or the one that was used by only 16 schools in all of Japan in 2004?

When the sun fades at the end of the fieldMy heart feels as if it misses youMy love, when the heart has mistakenly loved someoneThe lonely nights are when it (love) overflowsAn abundance of news, my love!Loving you my heart shall not fadeOur love I hope that forever moreMy love, our one love shall not fade

The heart yearns to say that for the whole of this lifetimeIt swears to forever love you completely and never changeLove is hard to describe, it abounds in wind and waves (ups and downs)Who would have known that on the path of life there’d be so many changes?

What is love? What is life?Why is it full of sufferingLove shall die, life shall fadeOne chokes in sadness when the heart is full of bitterness

So many months and years shall forever go onOur love is entering a plain of nothingness (void)Why must loving you bring so many wrongs?The love you give to me makes my heartbeat hasten An abundance of news, oh my love!Loving you my heart is intoxicatedNow though that the love is gone between the two of usThe words of parting are cold and withering

The characters I chose were to conform with a few of my friends who are doing their own standardising. I, however, still use my own variants (some of which make more sense) for some words.